Al-Andalus (esp)

Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus ranks 10,075th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Carson, California, Rickmansworth, and Mosfellsbær. Memorable people born in Al-Andalus include Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi, and Abu al-Qasim Muhammad ibn Abbad. Memorable people who died in Al-Andalus include Abbad II al-Mu'tadid, and Anbasa ibn Suhaym al-Kalbi. Al-Andalus has been the birth place of many astronomers, and politicians and the death place of many politicians. Al-Andalus is located in Spain.

Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula. The name describes the different Muslim states that controlled these territories at various times between 711 and 1492. At its greatest geographical extent, it occupied most of the peninsula as well as Septimania under Umayyad rule. These boundaries changed constantly through a series of conquests Western historiography has traditionally characterized as the Reconquista, eventually shrinking to the south and finally to the Emirate of Granada. Read more on Wikipedia